#alive

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#chase #chasing #going #i #live

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#could #dance #dancing #i #parents

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#book #guys #i #into #man

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#always #apprehend #beautiful #beautifully #feel

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#furious #death

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish